The Daily Stoic - Give Yourself This Gift

Episode Date: September 7, 2022

There is a beautiful passage on the last page of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s, The Little House in the Big Woods. She writes of an evening in the cabin with her family, her father playing the fiddle, her mom knitting in a rocking chair:“She thought to herself, ‘This is now.’ She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”📕Pre-order Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" and get exclusive pre-order bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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her mom knitting in a rocking chair. It says, she thought to herself, this is now. She was glad that the cozy house in Ma and Pa and the firelight and the music were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now can never be a long time ago. It's a passage that has resonated with millions of people over the last 86 years, including the writer Gretchen Rubin who ends her book happier at home with a meditation on how it has inspired her for most of her life. What does it mean? It means the same thing that the Stoics have always talked about, that you have to live in

the very now even when it is ordinary and quiet, because the now is very special. Give yourself a gift, Marcus Aurelius wrote, the present moment. But too many of us reject that gift. We think of long ago, we dream of, or fear, a distant future, we are distracted and preoccupied and miss what has happened around us. It's the quiet evenings at home with family that we should be present for. It's the ordinary present that we should cherish because it's all we have. You know the Stoics in real life met at what was called the Stoa, the Stoa

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